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Does anyone have a news source they follow for American news that is relatively unbiased?
I go to the CBC and BBC and to CNN for breaking news (not for unbiased news)...

Buehler?

Okay, haven't written here for a while, got some time and something on my chest to ask: something that has been bugging me since it happened. This gun-toting 'Republic' of 'Freedom Fighters, Freedom Fries and Freedom Pies' seems to have accepted the dropping of democracy and the rise of blatant corruption. So here goes...

Are Americans apathetic?
Hillary stole money and support from Sanders, and got away with it: her friend in the DNC shuffles money away from Sanders, then says "No way!" when Sanders says it's happening. Corrupt!!!

Speaking of corruption, Hillary then WITHOUT ANY PRETENSE OR UNDER-THE-TABLENESS hires the corrupt thief and liar. Corrupt!!!

And Americans say......
Americans do.......

What what what?

Why aren't Americans in the street protesting???

1. Hillary has shown herself to be corrupt by condoning corruption in people under her and around her.
2. She blatantly reinforces and raises to a higher level, those who acted in a corrupt manner for her benefit.
3. She seems to be blowing Sanders off: rumours of her agreeing to do things he wants to shut him up, but only in the interim... then she will do what she wants after.
4. She's against the TPP, but not really and will support it once elected.
5. ...................

I know 3,4,and 5 are how politicians work, but 1 and 2 should have Americans screaming bloody Jihad or something.
Where are the protests?
Where are the cries of "CORRUPTION, CORRUPTION, CORRUPTION"?

Why are some Americans still supporting her?

I am Canadian and cannot vote in this US election, but I liked Sanders: now after Sanders giving in for "Let's beat Trump", if i WAS American, I think i'd be voting for Jill Stein who i know nothing about except for the slogan "Jill not Hill" or whatever.
Anything but Billary 'Corruption' Clinton.

Do you go quietly into this nightmare? Is everyone too busy playing Pokemon Go to protest?? WTF???

Damn, i'd vote Trump before Shillary.

Why is the U.S. so quiet about this blatant corruption???? Throw her tea into the harbour, i say!!!

Los Angeles Gang Tour Puts A Twist On Drive-Bys

2010 article I found for crutchy on IRC.

I was glad to see this. Takei also has a great TED talk on the internment of Japanese in America in World War II that we're going to show our kids some time in the near future.

I just started using the friend feature to increase exposure of comments made by people that have a high signal to noise ratio. My technique is to use friends and friends of friends to jam the moderation score of comments as high as it can go. I'm not sure if that is the intended use case or not but so far so good.

It does, however and as far as I can tell, cause the actual moderation score of the comments to be hidden to me. Perhaps I should not mod people on my friends list due to conflict of interest but if I do feel like modding it makes it hard to tell if it will do any good or not.

I would think a feature that displays the moderated score in the system (unadulterated by user modifications) as well as the adjusted score would be a good idea.

Am I dumb and missed that Rehash already does this?

Is this idea dumb and not done for a reason?

If this passes the idiot test I'll submit a formal feature request.

Submitted July 36, Rejected July 26

      ScienceDaily reports on results from MIT's CSAIL and the Weizmann Institute:

3-D movies immerse us in new worlds and allow us to see places and things that we otherwise couldn't. But behind every 3-D experience is something that is uniformly despised: those goofy glasses.

In a new paper, a team from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science have demonstrated a display that lets you watch 3-D films in a movie theater without extra eyewear.

Dubbed "Cinema 3D," the prototype uses a special array of lenses and mirrors to enable viewers to watch a 3-D movie from any seat in a theater.

"Existing approaches to glasses-free 3-D require screens whose resolution requirements are so enormous that they are completely impractical," says MIT professor Wojciech Matusik, one of the co-authors on a related paper. "This is the first technical approach that allows for glasses-free 3D on a large scale."

While the researchers caution that the system isn't currently market-ready, they are optimistic that future versions could push the technology to a place where theaters would be able to offer glasses-free alternatives for 3-D movies.

Tonight was the final night of the Republican National Convention in the US. Vox attempts to answer the question: "How did the Party of Lincoln become the Party of Trump.

The Republican Party has nominated Donald J. Trump for president of the United States. This is a remarkable turn of events, and it only gets more remarkable when you think back to how the party began its existence: fighting against the expansion of slavery. But over the past century and a half, the party of Abraham Lincoln has changed dramatically. It went from a party that was racially progressive for its times, to one that gets little support from nonwhite voters. It went from a Northern-only party, to one that dominates the South. Here's how it happened.

In the opinion of your humble correspondent, this is probably the most coherent and concise explanation that I've seen. Read the text and/or watch the video.

Does it matter that my house is a mess?

• Piles of books on the couch: My kids love to read and do so every day
• Dirty cooking utensils in sink: My family tries to eat healthy and clean, and we cook a lot of our food from scratch, which creates a LOT of dishes
• Coloring books and crayons on the table: My daughter was coloring last night with my wife
• Legos all over the place: My kids love to play Legos, and their large projects take multiple days to complete
• Gym shoes by the door: My wife and I work out a lot, every day, so we leave the shoes where they are easy to grab to head out the door for a workout

I thought this was too funny not to share. This definitely reminds me of Red Green and I'm even pretty sure I hear a touch of Canadian accent in there.

• Air Powered Bicycle Pump
• Toilet Paper Machine 2.0
• Pokemon GO HACK - Realistic Poke Balls

I swear the air powered bicycle pump reminds me of most of the comments that happen at SN when they are technical but do not involve HTML or Perl.

NVIDIA Announces “NVIDIA Titan X” Video Card: $1200, Available August 2nd

Move Over GTX 1080, There’s A New Titan X In Town

Meaningless for anybody who doesn't want the general compute features. It's $200 more expensive than its predecessor, probably to avoid cannibalizing sales of more expensive Pascal GPUs intended for businesses.